HCI International 2018

15-20 July 2018 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

HCI International 2018, the 21sth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 15 – 20 July, under the auspices of 14 distinguished international boards of 362 Board Members from 40 countries.

HCI International 2018 explored a wide variety of new hot topics which reflect and contribute to a paradigm shift towards ubiquitous interaction, intelligent environments and interactive technologies supporting virtually any aspect of human life and activities in a global and social perspective.

The 30-volume Conference Proceedings are published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, and are available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by all subscribing libraries around the world.

An impressive number of more than 1700 individuals from 74 countries registered to participate in this truly international in scope event, where the work of the world’s foremost leaders in the field is presented.

Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager, Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group, Microsoft Research, USA, joined us as the keynote speaker at the opening plenary session. Her speech was entitled “Technology in support of healthy habits”.

Dr. James Lewis (IBM Master Inventor with 91 patents issued to date by the US Patent Office) and Prof. Gavriel Salvendy (Major Professor to 67 PhD students) hold mentoring sessions for PhD students, each with two important topics. The Mentoring Session of James Lewis addressed the topics of HCI career trends - past, present and future (in Part #1), and Transition from a PhD student to an industry professional (in Part #2). The Mentoring Session of Gavriel Salvendy addressed the topics of Development of a PhD Thesis and its dissemination (in Part #1), and Transition from a PhD student to Faculty (in Part #2).

For the first time in the history of the HCII Conference, a Student Design Competition took place. All accepted submissions were presented during the conference. Three awards were conferred along with three prizes during the Opening Plenary Session.

Also, as established in previous years, fifteen awards were conferred during the Opening Plenary Session. The awards, in the form of a plaque and a certificate, will be presented to the author(s) of the Best Paper of each Affiliated Conference/Thematic Area, and of the Best Poster Extended Abstract.

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Awards

HCII 2018 Call for Participation leaflet

HCII 2018 Final Program

HCII 2018 List of Exhibitors

HCII 2018 Conference Proceedings